The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt next-gen out on December 14
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Solfaur
This is the one that's supposed to have ray-tracing, right? I find it a bit concerning that it's not that heavily advertised as a feature of the update...
fantaskarsef
Yes it's said to have those. I find it odd to not advertise them much, but I guess that's okay as long as it's there.
I'm also certain, I won't install this in a month's time just to find out they're haven't brought RT... I'll wait and see. Got other games to play currently, anyway.
Glottiz
Maybe RT implementation isn't anything special and worth talking about. This could be something minimal like RT shadows only. If this was something major like Metro Exodus EE, then they would be shouting from the rooftops about it.
nevcairiel
This announcement was a short tweet basically saying "watch the full announcement next week", can only put so much in there. (yes, the tweet says next week, not sure where the OP got tomorrow from)
On that note, can we have more links to sources in articles? Having to google up the origin is really not that great.
AlmondMan
Neat. Will look in to playing through the last part of the second expansion then 🙂 when on the other side of having a GPU that handles ray tracing.
It kind of got tracked on the side while I was waiting for a full release of the texture mod I was using. I wonder if I can somehow remember all the mods that I used and not have a borked savegame 😀
btw @Hilbert Hagedoorn will you be updating your benchmark suite to include this patch version ?
Horus-Anhur
It also has a texture pack.
From what I understand they hired the guy that made the mod Withcer3 Reworked, to work on this remaster.
Pryme
Is a great adition, that project really made a great upgrade to the textures. I only had that mod and Reshade to fine tune the colors and other effects, the game was beautiful.
H83
If we consider that 80 or 90% don't have a RT GPU, then it makes sense.
Picolete
Comparation https://twitter.com/ConsumeProgeny/status/1592332743765282818?s=20&t=0DH02lWzvW1xdzdv3zfUDg
a pic of the same location in The Witcher 3 using vanilla maxed out settings downsampled at 4K.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhkaF1CaMAAQ_o1?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhkaGUaakAABnVq?format=jpg&name=large
Horus-Anhur
Higher resolution textures.
More polygons on rocks and walls.
Higher resolution shadows
More grass
High resolution boobs 😛
Solfaur
+Ray traced bewbs
-Tj-
Looks same old, low quality foliage - trees, weak lighting, especially on character, poor colour sheme - still cartoony..
Dunno, I found this very mediocre at best 😛
fantaskarsef
Global Illumination is all I'm hoping for, please thanks.
Denial
Eh, I think the lighting looks good and the rest is art direction. It would be weird if it went from Witcher 3 artstyle to photorealism or something.
Reminds me of when they remaster movies and they just colorgrade the whole movie like a modern movie.. "guys they are in the desert EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE ORANGE, ORANGE EVERYWHERE". I'd rather them follow the original coloration and just subtly improve graphics then change the art direction of the game.
Solfaur
I also hope that there will be cutscenes ultrawide support. I haven't replayed it since I switched for ultrawide, but I remember I fired it up once and was annoyed by the black borders. I know there's supposed to be a mod for it, I would prefer it to be native though.
AuerX
Well, I might actually get around to buying this game one day...
tunejunky
well after reading Horus & Solfaur i think the best addition will be bouncing boobs over the lyrics as Jaskiel is singing
cucaulay malkin
Should use physx for boobs
Kool64
brings new meaning to "your headlights are on"
Solfaur
All these bewb posts brings back memories from way back with Bethesda games (starting with FO3), where the first mods I would install, were always bewbs related. 🙄
